I'm curious if anyone can link/share to a file we can use for stress testing PMS? I'd think some sort of looping video file generating the maximum bitrate possible that we can use to push our systems to the maximum for use tweaking "worst case" transcoding scenarios.

I got a trailer from BBC's planet earth with some birds scene, which is the ultimate CPU stress video/sample I think(70% CPU playback on my core 2 duo with latest H264 decoder in mplayer)the big bunny open source movie is also a good test, get the 1080p H264 version here:

I've heard of the birds scene from Earth. What would be helpful is having JUST that scene in a 5-10 minute loop purely for testing purposes. However, I lack the skills to pay the bills on that request.

I tried the Taxi 3 sample and the Bunny MP4 sample (1080p).Taxi 3 played smooth, besides the two scenes where you saw the airplane in the air above the mountains (PS3 then reported rising bitrates up to 100Mbps so the video slowed down) but with the Bunny several parts stuttered. Strange in fact, cause my CPU doesnt report much more then 60-70% at both cores when this happens but the PSM buffer is struggeling to fill up. Wonder if its something with the buffer, or if itll make any difference if i try the same sample over gigabit?